The book, “Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Day” by Judith Viorst, is about a little boy who was having a “terrible, no good, very bad day”. I used to read it to my kids because of the message. We all have bad days and it’s not the end of the world. Everything will be better tomorrow. It usually is, after all.

On 9-11, we did not have a TV so I had to run out and buy one because I needed to watch what was happening. It was a very bad day.

I didn’t know what to do, so I called my parents. I was crying. My Dad, who was in the beginning stages of Alzheimers, listened and said “everything is going to be okay”.

This immediately shifted my energy from a fearful state to a state of faith because everything IS always okay. This fatherly, grounding, faith filled, positive statement was just what I needed.

I watched and prayed for all the victims of this horrific act of terrorism. But I did not lose hope that each day we would get better.

This week in the Master Key program, I understood that this optimistic faith is part of what my unconscious gives me. I had this modeled for me by my parents and their friends. Although there were never any serious discussions about faith, I often heard things like “it’s going to be okay” and “this too shall pass” and “tomorrow is another day” and “it’s nothing that a good nights sleep won’t cure”. This early life experience and a childhood of living in the present, were valuable lessons for me and my subconscious.

Now I’m the one who says this to my kids. I even say this to myself sometimes.

This past week has been a reminder that we create our experiences. We feed our subconscious a continuous diet of all of our desires, have faith (don’t question the outcome) and it is reality.

Our world changed forever on 9-11. But we are okay.